BigMike

do you have your own CNC machine or manual mill, or do you do this at work or something? just curious, cause my pops is a CNC machinist and makes parts all sorts of things for oil rigs and such. i just got hired on to a machine shop thats cutting armor plating for hummers with a laser cutting machine. i would ask them to make me a skid and a bumper and other things but i think its too early for that i really need to dust off my skills in auto cad.

plus strait sixes are inherently balanced, Cummings disele (god i cant spell) is a strait six and look at it, producing more hp and torque than comprable engines. supras produce mad hp when twin turboed, i gotta find this article of this crazy supra that had over 1000 hp at the wheels. its the best one ive ever seen, and i dont like them that much. as for detroit, the average CEO of those auto makers are there for about 4 years, so they have no real incentrive to do long term research or development. its more like they create fads in automotive. not really advancing but still doing something. Nissan has had such success with thier VG series engine because of their constant upgrades and research. for 10 years they have been ranked for the number one engine in reliability and overall preformance. if they treat the new 4L engine with the same rational and ideology i bet they will have a nother page in the books. the aztek is ugly bar NONE, come on what were they thinking?

i wonder what kinda gas millage he gets?

yea i need to fix mine too, it hates cold weather. funny story tho, when i first got my truck i help a family friend out to get a bed. she had a car, i had a truck. so i go to the place and they told me to drive around back, and the womans daughter tagged along with me, shes like 16-17 at the time. as im getting out of the car i say "stay in truck ill be just a min or two". well she didnt listen and i hear the sound of two doors close then a lockin noise. i was ah crap, she inanvertanly lock my keys in with the truck running. i was like ah crap, i handt even had it a week and my keys were already locked in. lol

well we have had a couple of dodges but never had any real problems with them, cept for a van we had that had the tranny go out on it. other than some problems with their trannys they build pretty good vehicals. the engines in the dodges we had were pretty reliable, no problems at all. on the other had we also owned a old 82 lincoln that was nothing but problems, transmission went out, then went buggy after a replacement, then the engine had uneven idles and bogged, then electric problems ect. just to many problems. we parked it at a storage facility and never looked back. almost every chevy my family has owned was a complete POS, cavaliar , never worked right from the factory. even the s-10s, my uncle has one that actualy dies going down hill. a green camero, engine problems that were never solved. thats why i nevered like chevy, i guess we were just cursed with problems with them. the one brand ive never really have problems with was Nissan and thats why i got a Pathfinder. my uncle in mexico has had 2 HB pickups and now owns a Pathfinder (2door version 4x4 of PWNAGE LOL). those HBs has been thru floods, droughts, loaded down with luggage, loaded with cut stone, dirt, sand, tons of peaple and that little 4cylinder just keep chuggin along. they are little fighters they are. people come up from south america and regulary get 2 or three of those suckers and tie em togather end to end and drive them all the way back. the first time i saw that i was like "wtf? " the one big problem i had with my pathy was the transmission, it broke but was still drivable. no codes came up and the reverse still worked. when i took it in the guy was like "how were you driving this?" i was like i dunno magic? myimpalasucks.com/

my nieghbor has a 2003 trail blazer that the company provided for him, very nice premium model. too bad it broke down. my buddy's pops had a 2002 chevy 2500 HD that was actualy kinda nice till it broke down and couldnt drive past 35, then when he got home it actualy couldnt make it up the drive way, my buddy had to use his ford to push it. there are some good things about chevy, they got a huge aftermarket, but other than that i wouldnt buy one.

for me its about 20 from that place so 373 for shipped thorleys is nice. i dont care if its nickle or ceramic still a sh!t load better than leaky manifolds.

mmmmmm that is so hott! those components look so pretty. i wonder if he painted the rear axle the same.

yay no more oil in the starter !!!! i gotta get that setup. do you have it set up with a oil cooler?

if you make skids for 1st gens ill definatly be buying some to cover the whole belly of the beast.

lol, heres one that happen no too long ago. when i was 13 , just over 6 years ago, i had moved in to my first house. really fun for me, a nice december afternoon. we had just finished moving in and i had grown curious of the nieghborhood, so i jump on my mountian bike and ride around. i ride to the near by corner store which at the time was located on a 2 lane street now a 6 lane road. we road back me an my bro ride back and see some other boy makin a ramp out of near by building materials, some 2x4s and bricks from the house being built. the ramp was easly 15 long and rose up about 1.5 feet. a nice slope, wide and pleanty of distance. so i watch for a couple mins as the other guys jump it, and i think *wow thats preatty cool i wanna do it* so i ask them if the mind that i join in, no we dont care they say. rember its a mountian bike, not a light one but one made out of steel , nothing fance just a steel mountian bike. i ride back a long long way and start pedeling like crazy, gaining speed. i reach the ramp and i can feel the wood under the tires, so i fly right off the end of the ramp and il thinking *man this is fast, sweet!!*, oh no not sweet at all. so im flying right and it feels like forever, thats when gravity kicks in. i swear i had gone up like 3 feet in the air. but heres the catch, you gotta land right. something i didnt. i feel that heavy hiney bike go head first and i think oh sh!t , i hit that concrete so hard, the bike slows but i still keep going, and going right over the handle bars. i reach out leting go of the bars like super man. cept unlike superman, i cant fly. i hit the concrete palms first, and tumble about 7 feet. i feel all dizzy lookin around seeing the twrill like a top. crap im lucky i say to my self. i sit up and put my left hand down to get up and scream out it pain, it hurt so fskcin bad, i let up so quick, i try again to get up with my right up and scream again. my brother runs in side and come back out with my grampa and gramma. he asks me whats wrong and between sobs i tell him i think i broke something. so he trys to get me up putting his hands under my arm pits and i scream. he lets off and starts probing around my shoulders and pushes in my left then my right and pushes in with me screaming and says *yea its broken* . so they get me up, and i start walking to my house, about 70 yards away. i go inside and my moms screamin *what the hell were you thinking* , she gets my dad and we all pile in to a HB kingcab and speed off to the hospital. the whole way there they give the good ole 3rd degree talks. i get to the hospital and sit in a wheel chair for 3 hours in a drowsy state till some one helps. turns out i had broken 3 bones in my left wrist and my right collar bone. to top it off when i was getting prepped for a cast, one of the male nurses had one of the biggest drop of saliva i have ever seen fall on my leg and run down. ugh :oops: :furious:

yea i ordered mine on friday and got it on tuesday. i too had a cheapo walmart strap we used it like 3 times and it broke every time. it had 2 hooks on it and each one broke, then we tied the ends to pull out a ford only to have it split in the middle and lash back.

yea misalined lamps are more dangerous than HID lamps any day.

well i just use some boshe blades, not the cheapest but not the most expensive either. i really dont have to worry about blades freezing cause its hot as hell in texas, although in the winter it does get cold enough to freeze the dew that forms on the windshield. its cold enough for me, some times i feel sorry for you guys up north but then i rember you get snow, something we very very rarely get in houston.

im poor right now but i did get enough money to buy a single 2" x 30, better than nothing when you get stuck tho

2.06 premium and 2.12 diesel, steep aint it?

have you tried bribing the attendent?

drive slower than 50mph

very very nice, eventualy ill get a set of those beauties and yes post tons of pics!

isnt it 4x6s in the front and 5x7s in the back? Pioneers are nice Eclipse niceee! MB Quart Very NICE, never liked any sony speakers, you can prolly fit some 6x9s in the back with some trimming. Coaxials are nice easy replacements but Components alow you to put you tweets where you want them in thus raising of lowering you sound stage.

oh god yes get it, its by far the best lift out there. if i had the loot id drop it so fast to get that lift and the steering upgrade among other things

lol i was thinking about the same thing and was trying to figure out if you had a factory light bar or if you bought it

hahahahhahahha trackers be some ugly vehicals especialy in the famed "pink" color

well ive slept in the front seat, i pulle the seat up far enought and took off the head rest then laid the back of the seat down till the top of it is low enought to slip under the bottom of the rear seat. so its like one contious cousion and you can even use the head rest as a pillow. wasnt too great but its better than sleeping in the elements.

brush guards will take "some"damage, when i had mine it prolly caused as much dmg as would have happened if i didnt have it. it pushed my radiator support back some so my bumper sags